MB&F Horological Machine No4 Thunderbolt is here!
Geneva, July 2010
A traditional wristwatch has a relatively straightforward role: to tell the time. All that is needed is a hand for the hours, another for the minutes and perhaps a power reserve indicator to keep track of running time. Horological Machine No4 Thunderbolt has a hand for the hours, another for the minutes and a power reserve indicator. HM4 Thunderbolt tells the time.
HM4 Thunderbolt is not a traditional wristwatch.
The aviation-inspired case and engine of the Thunderbolt are one. Neither would, nor could, exist without the other, yet each is so transcendental as to be able to stand alone as a work of art in its own right.
The Thunderbolt's engine is the culmination of three long years of development. Each of the 300-plus components – including the regulator and even the screws – was developed specifically for ...
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“Wearing a Watch on Your Body…” – 500 Years of a New Feeling for Time
The German Watch Museum Glashütte opens first Special Exhibition
Glashutte, 2010-05-21
Under the title “Wearing a Watch on Your Body…”, the first special exhibition opened with a private viewing on 19th May in the German Watch Museum Glashütte.
Guests from local politics and business, from the artistic and cultural world, partners and friends, Glashütte contemporary witnesses, watch-lovers, exhibit lenders and representatives from the Glashütte watch companies, as well as representatives from the various museums in the region attended the vernissage.
The special exhibition illuminates the thematic issues of “Time – Measurement of Time – Feeling for Time” on the basis of the portable watch, and exhibits treasures from the inventory of the foundation of the German Watch Museum Glashütte, the Glashütte Original manufactory, as well as loans from the Swatch Group AG and the Mathematical-Physical Salon of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
Beginning with the manufacture of the first mechanical watches in the ...
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A Radiant Presence: the GRAND LANGE 1 “Luminous”
With brightly glowing hands and appliques on its black dial, the GRAND LANGE 1 “Luminous” stands out prominently at night as well, showcased in a white-gold case with a diameter of nearly 42 millimetres.
Glashütte, April 2010
Since it had its debut more than 15 years ago, the LANGE 1 has been inspiring the iconic style of A. Lange & Söhne timepieces. Featuring a distinctively asymmetric dial configuration, the patented outsize date, and an immaculately crafted manufacture calibre with a power reserve of three days, it generated a fresh breeze in the global precision watchmaking community. Not surprisingly, it soon became one of the venerable manufactory’s most phenomenal bestsellers. It also ranks among the watches that received the most awards in the entire history of horology.
In 2003, the manufactory presented the GRAND LANGE 1 for enthusiasts of this design icon ...
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